Pan Lei

Pan Lei 潘壘 a Taiwanese film director and writer was born on August 4 1927 whose original name was Pan ChengdeChinese 潘承德 also known as Pan LeiChinese 潘磊 and his pen name Xinxi心曦 After joining the army to fight the Japanese at the border of China and India he came to Taiwan in 1949 and became a well known writer and journal publisher He began his film career as a scriptwriter and directed his first film in 1959 His third film Typhoon 颱風 1962 was outstanding among its contemporary films with its bold presentation of female desire and artistic achievement which won him the praise of Father of Taiwanese Art Cinema 台灣藝術電影之父 and the invitation to make films for the Shaw Brothers He died on July 22 2017